The chemical composition and antibacterial activity of essential oils from 10 commonly consumed herbs: Citrus aurantium, C. limon, Lavandula angustifolia, Matricaria chamomilla, Mentha piperita, M. spicata, Ocimum basilicum, Origanum vulgare, Thymus vulgaris and Salvia officinalis have been determined. The antibacterial activity of these oils and their main components; i.e. camphor, carvacrol, ...

Published Ahead of Print 1 October 2007. 10.1128/MCB.00623-07. 2007, 27(23):8374. DOI: Mol. Cell. Biol. Limon, Michel Raymondjean and Khadija El Hadri Lucas Ravaux, Chantal Denoyelle, Claire Monne, Isabelle BCL-6 and the Proto-Oncogene β Muscle Cells: Cooperation between PPAR Receptors (PPARs) in Rat Vascular Smooth by Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Expression IIA Secretory Phospholipase A2 ...

Environmental and labour standards have become an important international trade issue. This article examines and ranks alternative trade policy responses available to an importing country with concerns over such standards. While a full import embargo may sometimes be preferable to allowing unrestricted access to unlabeled non-conforming imports, a partial embargo that allows imports which demon...

Across cultures and languages, people find similarities between the products of different senses in mysterious ways. By studying what is called cross-modal correspondences, cognitive psychologists discovered that lemons are fast rather than slow, boulders are sour, and red is heavier than yellow. Are these cross-modal correspondences established via sensory perception or can they be learned mer...

ABSTRACT: Due to the importance of essential oils and their use in various industries, the essential oils of four types of citrus consisting of orange (C. sinesis), tangerine (C. reticulate), sweet lemon (C. limetta) and sour lemon (C. limon) were extracted and subjected to chemical analysis to identify and evaluate the chemical constituents of the oils. The average essential oils of orange, ta...